Lock-equipped whip-socket.



M. ELLINGSON. LOOK EQUIPPED WHIP SOCKET. APPLICATION FILED APR. 2a, 1908.

' Patented Oct. 27, 1908.

MIKKEL ELLINGSON, OF BROOTEN, MINNESOTA.

LOCK-E QUIPPED WHIP-SOCKE 'I.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 27, 1908.

Application filed April 23, 1908. Serial No. 428,773.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MIKKEL ELLINGSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooten, in the county of Stearns and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lock Equipped Whip-Sockets; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art' to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its object to rovide a simple and efficient lock equip e whipsocket, and to this end it consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined in the claims.

It is a well known fact that whips are very frequently stolen or surreptitiously removed from whip sockets when a vehicle is left standing. My invention affords an extremely simple and eflicient device for look ing the whip in its socket so as to prevent re moval therefrom when the driver leaves the vehicle.

In the accompanying drawings which. illustrate the preferred form of the device, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a view in front elevation, with some parts broken away, showing the whip socket equipped with my improved combination lock. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the said parts shown in Fi 1. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken on the line a m of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section taken on the line as x of Fig. 2; and Figs. 5 and 6 are details, re spectively in elevation and plan, showing the so-called main lock bolt removed from workin position.

11 the drawings the character 2 indicates the butt end of a whip. The numeral 2 indicates a whip socket, preferably of cast iron and having at its 11 per portion a bearing head 3 cast integral t erewith. The body of the whip socket 2 is provided with a vertical seat 2 open at its to and closed at its bottom and adapted to reely receive the butt end of the whip. The butt ends of whips are, as is well known, tapered in a direction from their butt toward their tip ends.

The lock which I employ is in the nature of a combination lock and it com rises a socalled main lock bolt and a multip icity of supplemental lock bolts, which lock bolts, in the best form of the device are rotatively mounted in the head 3 of the whip socket. The main lock bolt 4 is rotatively mounted in a seat of the head 3, which seat, at one side, transversely intersects the whi seat-2 and the said lock bolt is formed wit a segmental notch 5, which, when turned into alinement with the said seat 2, as shown in Fig. 3, follows the wall of the said seat 2, so that the whip may be freely inserted into or removed from the socket. When, however, this main lock bolt 4 is turned so that its uncut cylindrical portion projects into the seat 2*, it en. gages the tapered butt of the whip and positively locks the whip in the socket.

At one end, the rotary lock bolt 4 is provided with a knob 6, by means of which it may be freely rotated, and it is also provided with a flange 7 having a radial mark that serves to indicate to a person knowing the combination the position in which the segmental notch 5 stands in res ect to the seat 2 of the whip socket. To old the bolt 4 against endwise movements while permitting the same to freely rotate, a pin 8 is driven into the head 3 and engaged with an annular groove 9 of the said bolt.

The supplemental lock bolts, of which there should be at least two, in order to make the combination too difficult to be discovered by experiment, are extended transversely of the main bolt 4 and are rotatively mounted in the socket head 3. The seats in these supplemental lock bolts 10 intersect the seat for the main lock bolt 4, and the said main lock bolt is provided with peripheral segmental notches 11, so located that they can be turned into alinement with the seats for the said supplemental lock bolts only when the notch 5 of said bolt 4 is turned out of alinement with the whip socket seat 2 Both of these supplemental lock bolts 10 are provided with segmental notches 12, which,

when turned into alinement with the seat of.

the main lock bolt, permit the said main lock bolt to be freely rotated. The said seat 12 can be turned into alinement with the lock bolt 4 only when the main lock bolt 4 is turned into a position to move its notch 5 out of alinement with the seat 2 and to bring its seat 11 into alinement with the said supplemental lock bolts 10; and when said supplemental lock bolts, or either thereof, is turned so that its notch 12 is out of alinement with the main lock bolt 4, the latter will be locked in its operative position, to-wit, in a position to lock the whip within the socket. 1

the head 3 engage annular grooves 16 in the bolts 10 to hold the latter against endwise movement while permitting free rotation thereof.

When the whip is locked in the socket as above described, a person not knowing the combination will not be able to set both of the supplemental bolts 10 in such position that their notches 12 will aline with the bolt 4, but a person knowing the proper combination may very quickly and easily set the two bolts 10 in such position so that the main bolt 4 may be freely turned into the whip releasing position, shown by full lines in Fig. 3.

As illustrated in the drawings,- the combination to release the whip requires a right hand bolt 10 to be set at two, left hand bolt 10 to be setat four as shown in Fig. 1,- and the main bolt 4 to be set with a radial mark in the osition as shown in Fig. 2'.-

As s own,- the head 3 of the whip socket 2 is provided with perforated lugs 17 that ada' t the same to be rigidly secured to the das board of the vehicle.

The whip socket and lock m'eehanism above described may be very cheaply connotches adapted to be turned into alinement with said main lock bolt, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a whip socket, of main and supplemental lock bolts rotatively mounted in the head portion of said socket, said main lock bolt having a notch adapted to be turned into alinernent with the whip seat of said socket and having notches adapt ed to be turned into alinement with said su'pplemental lock bolts, the said supplemental lock bolts having notches adapted to be turned into alinem'ent with said main lock bolt, and the said main and supplemental lo'c'k bolts having knobs and dials at one end substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I afiiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MIKKEL ELLINGS'ON. Witnesses M. F. C'LEINs, BIN ANDERSON. 

